Private Sector Engagement
https://www.gbif.org/private-sector
Andrew Rodrigues | Programme Officer

European Bee-Eater Merops apiaster observed in Karakiran, Turkey by ahmet_basoglan. Photo via iNaturalist (CC BY-NC 4.0)

BUSINESS AND BIODIVERSITY DATA•

Business uses biodiversity data to mitigate theimpacts of their operations throughenvironmental and social impact assessments•

Companies want to build their social licence tooperate and demonstrate their commitment tointernational development goals•

Data sharing represents a low cost opportunitywith high impact potential

Photo from flickr by Max Phillips (Jeremy Buckingham MLC) CC BY 2.0

SHIFT TOWARDS PUBLICATION
THROUGH GBIF

Shift towards making biodiversity data openly
and freely available•

New legislation e.g. Western Australia"I welcome agreement to progress digital environmental impact assessment.
Ensuring WA and the country has efficient and effective environmental
regulation systems is vital to protect our environment for future generations
and providing certainty to industry.”- Hon Stephen Dawson MLC, Minister for Environment; Disability Services;Electoral Affairs – Government of Western Australia•Open data organisational policies

Media statement: https://www.mediastatements.wa.gov.au/Pages/McGowan/2019/11/Calls-for-Federal-action-on-critical-environmental-issues.aspx
https://wabsi.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/Digitally-Transforming-Environmental-Assessment_Working-Group-Report.pdf

SHIFT TOWARDS PUBLICATION
THROUGH GBIF

Financial institutions are also demandingtransparency and open data in the projects theyfinance-Equator Principles - https://equatorprinciples.com/“The EPFI will encourage the client to share commerciallynon-sensitive Project-specific biodiversity data with theGlobal Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) andrelevant national and global data repositories, usingformats and conditions to enable such data to beaccessed and re-used in future decisions and research
applications.”

Media statement: https://www.mediastatements.wa.gov.au/Pages/McGowan/2019/11/Calls-for-Federal-action-on-critical-environmental-issues.aspx

SHIFT TOWARDS PUBLICATION
THROUGH GBIF

Data4Nature - https://www.gbif.org/data4nature
The Data4Nature initiative encourages development actors to capitalizeon the biodiversity data collected during impact assessments of theprojects they support
Originally conceived by the Agence Française du Développement
AFD-funded projects can produce between 20,000 and 40,000 records ayear, excluding bird data.
• 40 per cent of data published for the whole of Asia
• 15 per cent of the information collected in Africa for the period 20152019.
An opportunity to reduce the gap in biodiversity data in developing
countries
Media statement: https://www.mediastatements.wa.gov.au/Pages/McGowan/2019/11/Calls-for-Federal-action-on-critical-environmental-issues.aspx

DATA FROM BUSINESS AND GBIF•

27 private sector companies are publishingdata through GBIF have published 3,426,240
records in GBIF•

Private companies are willing to share datawhen there is pro-active engagement•

Other engagement activities in past
• Eye on Earth• International Association for Impact

Assessments - https://www.iaia.org/

Company

Activity sector

CountryDatasetsAïgos SAS
Anadarko Colombia Company

Consulting
EnergyColombia
Colombia

33

Occurrence
records
2,404
282

Arctic Research and Consulting
DA
Asplan Viak AS
Biofokus
Biolog J.B. Jordal AS

Consulting

Norway18,914

Engineering
Consulting
Consulting

NorwayNorwayNorway141
13,779519,258
177,814

CelsiaChevron Australia
DNG VL
EcofactEDP - Energias de Portugal

EnergyEnergyEnergyConsulting
EnergyColombia
Australia
NorwayNorwayPortugal

211176352,048
2,036,474
11,273
618,587

Faun Naturforvaltning AS

Consulting

Norway13,788Federación Nacional deCafeteros
Hatovial SAS
INERCO
IsagenLafargeHolcim Spain

Agriculture

Colombia

626,804

Engineering
Consulting
EnergyMiningColombia
Colombia
Colombia
Spain

1182

1,898
1,090
19,35235

Moam SAS
Multiconsult
Naturrestaurering AS

Consulting
Consulting
Consulting

Colombia
NorwayNorway1131,781
308782

NNI
Oleoducto Bicentenario

Consulting
EnergyNorway
Colombia

233,1162,074Rådgivende Biologer

Consulting

Norway515,214

Stratos
SWECO Norge ASTerrasos
Total

Consulting
Engineering
Consulting
EnergyColombia
NorwayColombia
France1141849
1,1399,781324

NEXT STEPS•

Consolidating existing guidance and expertise•••

OpenPSD Project – close project 31 December
Equator Principles – came into force October
2020
IAIA-GBIF guidelines –community review
deadline 6th DecemberNEXT STEPS•

Consolidating existing guidance and expertise•Capacity building for data publishing

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OpenPSD Project
Equator Principles
IAIA-GBIF Guidelines
Training materials
Helpdesk services

NEXT STEPS•

Consolidating existing guidance and expertise•

Capacity building for data publishing••••••

OpenPSD Project
Equator Principles
IAIA-GBIF Guidelines
Training materials
Helpdesk services

Continued promotion of biodiversity data sharing
by business••••Supporting campaigns such as Data4Nature
Engaging in sustainable business fora
Developing the GBIF business caseEngaging with sectoral associations and bodies

THANK YOU
Andrew Rodrigues
Programme Office for Participation and Engagement
arodrigues@gbif.org

www.gbif.org